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Yemen: Suspected Al-Qaeda gunmen shoot, kill man believed to be gay
ADEN, Yemen — Suspected Al-Qaeda gunmen on Thursday shot a Yemeni man because they believed he was gay, a security official told European news agency AFP.
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U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv issues first visas to married, same-sex couples
TEL AVIV, Israel — The U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv on Thursday issued the first derivative visas to same-sex spouses.
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Man accused to be gay murdered by Al-Qaeda militants in Yemen
ADEN, Yemen — Two militants from an Al-Qaeda linked group on Monday killed a man in the provincial capital of Huj who they accused of being gay, a police source said Tuesday.
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Lebanon: Being gay is not a disease and needs no treatment
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Homosexuality is not a mental disorder and does not need to be treated, the Lebanese Psychiatric Society (LPS) said Thursday in a statement published by the Ministry of Information.
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Prosecutor: Shooter in attack on Tel Aviv youth center motivated by anti-gay bias
TEL AVIV — Israel’s state prosecution said Monday that the suspect in the 2009 deadly attack on a gay youth center in Tel Aviv has confessed that the shooting was motivated by anti-gay bias.
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Middle East Gay Pride and LGBT safety exist only in Israel
Sexual minorities are as unwelcome in the Middle East as are religious minorities. Just as the Muslim-majority countries of the Middle East are generally hostile to Christians, Jews, Bahá’ís, Zoroastrians, and other religious minorities, they are even less welcoming of non-heterosexuals. Except in Israel. And yet it is Israel — absurdly enough — that is consistently singled out for excoriation by human rights groups, college campus activists, and other ostensibly well-meaning individuals.
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Israeli police say 2009 killings at gay youth center were not a hate crime
JERUSALEM — Israeli police say the killing of two people at a gay youth center in Tel Aviv four years ago is no longer being treated as a hate crime.
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Israeli police arrest three suspects in 2009 shooting at gay youth center
TEL AVIV — Israeli police have arrested three suspects in connection with a shooting at Tel-Aviv’s gay youth center that took place in 2009. The three suspects were arrested Wednesday and will appear in court Thursday for a remand hearing.
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William Murray: Homosexual elitist diplomats are to blame for Middle East turmoil
William Murray of the Religious Freedom Coalition not only told the American Family Association’s Sandy Rios that Islam is not a religion, but also that the U.S. fails to understand Muslims because our diplomats are homosexual elitists.
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Iranian news agency accuses Israel, U.S., U.K. of ‘spreading homosexuality’ globally
QOM, Iran — The Mashregh News, a state-controlled Iranian media outlet, has published a report asserting that the “Zionist regime” of Israel, along with Jews in the U.S. and the United Kingdom were financing efforts to “spread homosexuality” across the globe.